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It’s time to stop worrying about Regulation FD and start being folksy, down-to-earth, and whatever else your PR people tell you to…
Video sites that host user-generated content need to do more to screen videos in order to ensure they do not have material that is inappropriate for children, according to a UK parliamentary body.Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Committee said without proper monitoring sites can accidentally publish pornography, child abuse or other illegal content, the group said in a report.
Google's Street View photography of a Pennsylvania residence drew a lawsuit from the owners, but Google dismissed the plaintiff's opinion as being out of touch with the real world.
Google plans to start placing links to more details on how they have customized a given set of search results for visitors, in the name of demonstrating why they chose those results.
Internet access for reporters covering the Summer Olympics in China suffers the usual blocking instead of the open surfing the press expected to find; they can thank Olympic Committee members for this.
All the big newspapers have an editorial about Net Neutrality today, and the New York Times seems to be the only one running anything on the pro-side. Net Neutrality visionary (he coined the phrase) Tim Wu's editorial, entitled OPEC 2.0, compares bandwidth to oil—a necessary good tightly controlled by a few powerful entities. Wu's thesis:
